Two federal judges with seemingly opposite rulings on whether using GenAI tools waives the work product privilege. But the cases present facts that differ in important ways.Here’s what reading them together can tell us about discovery risk, waiver, and pro se status. The bottom line is that privilege issues can still be minefield, and neither ruling necessarily gives you a safe
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Sidley Austin's E-Discovery Group Leader: Clients Encouragement Gives Firms Space to Innovate
Colleen Kenney, partner and founder and head of the e-discovery and data analytics group at Sidley Austin and winner of Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Lifetime Achievement Award, talks about the vital role clients play in spurring law firm technology experiments.
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Munger Tolles & Olson's Senior Litigation Support Manager: Great Barrier to Innovation Is Structure
Shannon Lex Bales, senior manager of litigation support at Munger Tolles & Olsonand winner of Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Lifetime Achievement Award, talks about how every breakthrough innovation in legal follows a similar path.
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EDRM CEO Mary Mack: AI Pushing E-Discovery Clients to Put Premium on Trust, Reliability
Mary Mack, CEO and chief legal technologist at EDRM and winner of Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Lifetime Achievement Award, discusses how outcomes and relationships are becoming more important than pricing for clients in the d-discovery market.
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A Human Approach to AI and Legal Services
As legal teams adopt AI tools in e-discovery, they need to examine how to run a meaningful cost-benefit analysis alongside a human-led approach before committing further—especially given the current state of AI adoption and market challenges.
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Litigation Startup Advocacy Announces $3.5M Investment, With Backing From Fenwick & West, Relativity Labs
The startup, which offers a litigation platform that streamlines discovery, case strategy and motion drafting, also said a “consortium of Big Law and litigation boutique firm partners, as well as law school investors, participated in its seed funding round.
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LawNext on Location: At A Sonoma Winery, A Conversation with Briefpoint CEO Nathan Walter about Discovery, Disruption and, Of Course, Wine
Continuing my on-location interview tour of San Francisco, I head an hour north to Santa Rosa to sit down with Nathan Walter, cofounder and CEO of Briefpoint, over a bottle of red wine at Paradise Ridge Winery, a spot literally around the corner from Nathan’s house, sitting on the edge of the Mayacamas Mountain Range […]
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Join us on 25 March: Inside Harvey’s AI Agents & Shared Spaces
Harvey’s agentic workflows, launched a year ago, will reshape how legal teams automate multi‑step tasks and streamline complex work. Paired with Harvey’s new Shared Spaces, released in December, law firms and in‑house teams are discovering new ways to collaborate.Join us for a TalkingTech webinar where Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill sits down with Joe Cohen (legal innovation partner, Harvey)…
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Google, DOJ Appeal Remedies Decision as US Judge Hires Technical Committee
A multimember technical committee will help U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta monitor whether Google complies with Mehta’s behavioral remedies order while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reviews consolidated appeals of the government plaintiffs and defendant Google all objecting to Mehta’s final judgment finding the Big Tech company liable but rejecting a structural fix.
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Turn Critics into Champions During Change
From : Blog Entry >> Brendan’s Blog EntryPlease enjoy this blog authored by Brendan Miller, Former AmLaw 100 Partner, Turned Legal Innovation Leader. You’ve seen it play out before: • a team member offers heavy—and vocal—resistance to a proposed new technology rollout, concerned that the team will see her future contributions as less valuable once it is implemented; •…
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New AI Education Programs Abound as Legal Strives for Tech Literacy
A growing number of initiatives are emerging aimed at teaching legal professionals about the opportunities and risks of gen AI.
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Michigan AG Sues Kalshi, Joining Legal Attack Against Prediction Market Exchanges
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel alleged that KalshiEx LLC violated Michigan’s Lawful Sports Betting Act by offering online sports wagers to state residents.
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How AI, ADR Can Clear Access to Justice Bottlenecks: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Bridget McCormack
American Arbitration Association CEO and president Bridget McCormack discussed how AI presents an opportunity to develop accessible options in dispute resolution for those who can’t afford traditional legal services.
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Universal Migrator Releases Scripts That Migrate Docuware, Legal Server, And Alfresco To Imanage, Sharepoint, And Netdocuments
With each month, Universal Migrator’s library becomes more comprehensive. Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from DocuWare, Legal Server, and Alfresco into major document management systems including iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 141+ applications, spanning practice […]
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The Metadata Trap: Why Data Privacy Matters When Lawyers Use AI
This paper advances a single claim: in the AI era, privacy risks are increasingly metadata risks—and metadata risks are professional responsibility risks.
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